Meet the Britelings

Our team embodies the wide spectrum of events on Eventbrite-from musicians to marathon runners, foodies to fundraisers. What unites us? Our drive to help people get offline and get together to explore their interests and pursue new passions.

Meet Our Fearless Leaders

Kevin Hartz

CoFounder & CEO

Before founding Eventbrite, Kevin served as Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation (NASD: XOOM), an international money transfer company. He has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including PayPal, Pinterest, Lookout, Flixster, Airbnb, Trulia, and Yammer.

Julia Hartz

CoFounder & President

Focused on in-house strategy and growth, Julia is responsible for building, evolving, and sustaining Eventbrite's growing team of 500 "Britelings" and award-winning company culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area six years running). Before co-founding Eventbrite, Julia worked as a television development executive at MTV and FX Networks. Here is a video of Julia discussing entrepreneurship and building Eventbrite from the ground up.

Renaud Visage

CoFounder & CTO

Renaud is the founding technical architect of Eventbrite and is responsible for the internationalization of the Eventbrite platform. Renaud is also an accomplished architectural and travel photographer, and has had his work represented by various stock photo agencies around the world.

Randy Befumo

VP of Strategy

As a former Director of Research at Legg Mason Capital Management, Randy brings two decades of investment experience to his role at Eventbrite, where he combines analysis of the product, market, and competitive landscape to drive business and product strategy.

Nels Gilbreth

VP of Finance

Nels is responsible for Eventbrite's analytics and financial models. With a B.A. in physics from Colgate University and a masters (MPhil) in physics from Cambridge University (Trinity Hall), Nels got started in finance at the New York hedge fund, Ziff Brothers Investments, and later worked at Lehman Brothers where he executed interest rate product trades for institutional investors.

Tamara Mendelsohn

VP of Marketing

Tamara spearheads the Marketing team at Eventbrite, where she helps guide the brand, acquire and delight new users, and build a growing community of event organizers and attendees. Prior to Eventbrite, she was a Senior Analyst with Forrester Research, where she specialized in eCommerce technology.

Dana Kilian

VP of Customer Experience

Dana ensures Eventbrite's customers are fanatically happy with our service and support. Perfecting scalable, efficient, and personal service, Dana has helped Eventbrite achieve and maintain one of the highest Net Promoter Scores possible. Her passion for improving the customer experience began on the AdWords team at Google.

Pat Poels

VP of Engineering

Pat leads the world-class engineering team at Eventbrite. Previously the Vice President of Software Development at Ticketmaster, Pat was responsible for host system development and wrote much of the reserved seating inventory system that's still in use today.

Matt Rosenberg

SVP of Sales and Business Development

Matt is responsible for strategy and growth of our global sales and business development. Before Eventbrite, Matt headed up sales at ServiceSource where he helped grow the company from $65M in revenue to over $220 million, propelling them toward a successful IPO in 2011.

Mark Rubash

CFO

As Chief Financial Officer, Mark juggles budgets and costs management, sets aggressive financial goals, and measures performance. Prior to Eventbrite, Mark handled finance for companies including eBay, Yahoo! and Shutterfly, and was also a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Laurent Sellier

VP of Product

Laurent is leading Eventbrite's worldwide product strategy as we build out our discovery platform and create a global marketplace for live experiences. Previously serving as Twitter's Director of Product Management, Laurent focused on product strategy for their mobile apps, and led their most recent redesign. Prior to Twitter, Laurent worked for seven years at Amazon on the team that built the Kindle business from the ground up.